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tag out

tag out verb: to affix a label to (potentially dangerous machinery) to indicate why it has been shut down. To avoid accidents, only the person who affixed the label is authorized to remove it and restart the machinery.

Verb

tag out (third-person singular simple present tags out, present participle tagging out, simple past and past participle tagged out)

  1. (transitive) To affix a label to (potentially dangerous machinery) to indicate why it has been shut down. To avoid accidents, only the person who affixed the label is authorized to remove it and restart the machinery.
  2. (transitive) To touch a contestant or player in order to do something, such as to remove a runner from play in baseball or to replace a wrestler with a teammate in tag-team wrestling.
  3. To replace another person or take another person's place, such as in a shift change at a workplace.
  4. To be replaced by another person, such as in a shift change.

Forms of tag out

third-person singular presenttags out
present participletagging out
past participletagged out
pasttagged out

Words formed from tag out

Questions about tag out

What does tag out mean?
Tag out means to affix a label to (potentially dangerous machinery) to indicate why it has been shut down. To avoid accidents, only the person who affixed the label is authorized to remove it and restart the machinery.
What part of speech is tag out?
Tag out is a verb.
What is the past tense of tag out?
The past tense of tag out is tagged out.

Words near tag out in the dictionary

  1. tag groups
  2. tag line
  3. tag lines
  4. tag off
  5. tag on
  6. tag out
  7. tag question
  8. tag questions
  9. tag rugby
  10. tag sale
  11. tag sales

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